Diddy’s honorary diploma from Howard College has been retracted because of the 2016 surveillance video that exhibits Puff beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura.
Diddy’s Honorary Howard College Diploma Retracted
On Friday (June 7), the native Black collegiate newspaper The Hilltop reported that Howard College in Washington D.C. had voted to retract Diddy’s honorary diploma. Additionally they mentioned they’d returned Puff’s $1 million donation made to the varsity. The college’s Board of Trustees voted to finish the 2023 pledge settlement that had by no means truly been fulfilled by Puff’s Sean Combs Basis.
“Mr. Combs’ habits, as captured in a just lately launched video, is so essentially incompatible with Howard College’s core values and beliefs that he’s deemed not worthy to carry the establishment’s highest honor,” a assertion issued by the college learn, through The Hilltop.
The video in query was the 2016 resort surveillance video through which Diddy could possibly be seen beating and assaulting his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura. The video emerged on-line on Could 17. Diddy apologized for his actions within the video in a recorded apology tape on Could 19.
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Howard College’s choice comes as Diddy continues to expertise a sweeping and dramatic fallout associated to a number of allegations in opposition to him of sexual and bodily abuse. Earlier in June, Puff offered his majority stake in REVOLT, the media firm he based in 2013, making the staff the most important shareholders group. REVOLT introduced Diddy’s shares had been “absolutely redeemed and retired.”
The disgraced rap mogul had beforehand stepped down as Chairman of the corporate final November following a number of lawsuits that accused him of rape, sexual assault and violence. REVOLT’s CEO Detavio Samuels celebrated the worker’s possession, championing them as “house owners of the enterprise they’re serving to to construct.” The employees is now the most important shareholder group within the firm following Diddy’s departure.
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